Arcadia Cocoa Loco Triple Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

22oz bottle 9/19/09 (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a very dark brown with a decent loose tan head that dissipates rather quickly. Aroma of roasted malt and slight sourness. Hope it’s not bad. Taste of chocolate, coffee, and more chocolate. This medium bodied brew is a bit thin but still very tasty and fairly well balanced but not as good as ST Choklat.

Bomber into pint glass. Very dark brown, near black body with a fizzing khaki head that doesn’t hold or lace too well. Aroma is very simple and lacking in regards to my expectation of a 7% stout. A little dark fruit, roastiness, vanilla, and just the slightest hint of chocolate. The flavor is very chocolatey and creamy, almost like a milkshake. It is good in the sense that it exhibits a real chocolate flavor, but it is just a bit too sweet and intensely milky - almost like getting a soda from a fountain and getting too much syrup and not enough carbonated water to dilute it. Reminds me of Drangon’s Milk stout. Pretty thin on the palate, but very smooth with fine carbonation.

Decent stout, could have been a touch past it’s prime, too hard to tell for sure. Nice roasty aroma with a solid chocolate kicker. Dark brown body, thin tan head and good lacing. Tastes of chocolate, nuts, caramel and some more chocolate. A touch of faint coffee and some mild bitterness from the hops. Not too heavy, finishes too subtle for my liking. I need a heartier stout that sticks around.

Pours a very dark brown the a semi foamy/frothy light brown head. Big aromas of chocolate, with caramel behind it and some molasses. The flavor is different than expected. There is this kind of balance between the hops and the chocolate which in mine and I think many others opinions shouldn’t be because these flavors just don’t sit right together. I can also taste some barely if not much, which is also unusual of a stout especially at the abv. Hehe. After drinking round half the 22 oz bottle can finally notice a little molasses and cocoa but faintly because of the other distracting flavors...... Should be much less on the hops and barley and more on the malts!! Semi sweet and bitter.

Pours pitch black with a foamy coffee-colored head. Roasted chocolate malty aroma with hints of coffee and caramel. Very smooth roasted malty flavor with a sweet creamy chocolate center and a bitter roasted coffee finish. Also, hints of toffee and caramel.

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 10/10/2008 Beige head. Some roast aroma. Black fruity and hoppy with a little bitterness in a crisp and dry finish.

Dark brown chock full of suspended particles and has a medium mocha topper that streaks lace. Chocolate, sweet malt, cocoa, molasses and something sweet, perhaps oatmeal dominate the aroma. Taste of cocoa, lactose, dark roasted malt, licorice, molasses and light alcohol. Creamy body gives way to a mild hop finish.

12oz bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester, Maine. Pours an opaque black body with a thin film of tan head. Smells nutty, somewhat chocolatey, maybe some banana? Tastes like chocolate for sure, sweet, some caramel malt, somewhat nutty, some vineous/raisin qualities. Chocolate dominates though. Super-smooth medium to full in body with ample carbonation. No alcohol apparent anywhere. A super-tasty, well-crafted American stout, one I have difficulty finding much wrong with. Very good. Definitely one I’ll be snagging again should I see it again.